3

Stafford has made three playoff starts — all of them losses, of course, and all on the road. He hasn’t played poorly, though, completing 63.3 percent of his passes for 302.7 yards a game with four touchdowns and three interceptions. He also has a rushing touchdown.

5

Stafford is one of just five quarterbacks to throw for at least 5,000 yards in a season, doing it in 2011. (He barely missed the mark in 2012, throwing for 4,967 yards.) The other four? Drew Brees (five times), Dan Marino (1984), Tom Brady (2011) and Peyton Manning (2013).

26

Since entering the league in 2009, Stafford has led the Lions to 26 wins after trailing in the fourth quarter. That’s No. 1 in that span. The Falcons’ Matt Ryan is second, with 24, while the Saints’ Drew Brees has led 19 fourth-quarter comebacks.

60

Stafford has won 60 career starts with the Lions. Yes, “QB wins” is a pretty meaningless stat — Blake Bortles has more playoff wins than the entire Lions franchise in the past 60 seasons — but Stafford is the Lions’ leader in the stat. (Bobby Layne is second, with 53.)

65

Stafford has also lost 65 regular-season starts with the Lions, also tops in franchise history. Then again, Lions QBs are pretty familiar with losing. Of the 16 Lions QBs who’ve played in at least 30 games, just five have winning records: Layne (53-29-2), Bill Munson (24-21-3) and Earl Morrall (15-10-1).

727

Let’s take a closer look at Stafford’s 2012 season, in which he just missed the 5,000-yard mark. Stafford had 727 pass attempts that year. That broke Drew Bledsoe’s 18-year-old record of 691, set in 1994. There have been just eight seasons where a QB attempted at least 660 passes; Stafford’s done it twice.

34,749

Stafford has thrown for 34,749 yards in his first nine seasons. Just three quarterbacks in NFL history have racked up more passing yards in their first nine seasons: Matt Ryan (37,701), Peyton Manning (37,586) and Dan Marino (35,386). All of them played in at least 10 more games than Stafford in that span.

$27,000,000

Stafford will average $27 million a season over the length of the five-year extension he signed before the 2017 season. When he signed the deal, he was the league’s highest-paid QB (by annual average value). Since then, though, Atlanta’s Matt Ryan ($30 million), Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins ($28 million) and San Francisco’s Jimmy Garoppolo ($27.5 million) have passed him.